The Lost Daughter - A Conversation Among Hikers and Young Leda
Young Joe:
You guys, uh, look like you've been going a while.
Male Hiker:
Yes. Since April. Amazing.
Female Hiker:
Grazie. (Thanks)
Young Joe:
Can I ask, how old are you?
Male Hiker:
Forty-two.
Young Joe: [''Chuckles'']
Oh, my God. Life is so different without kids.
Male Hiker: [[w:London|London]
I have kids. I have three kids. Twelve, nine and seven. They are in ] with their mother.
Young Leda:
So you ran away together?
Male Hiker:
I guess we did.
Female Hiker:
Yes, we did. Hmm. We are obliged to do so many stupid things. From childhood, even.
Young Leda:
Obliged?
Female Hiker:
Yes. What happened to us is the only thing that's happened to me since I was born that makes sense.
Young Leda and Female Hiker: [''[[w:Italian|Singing in Italian; ''Leda sustains note''; ''Female hiker chuckles and clinks glass with Young Leda with Young Joe clapping'']
E prima di uscire (and before going out) da questa santa porta (from this holy door) proviama un'altra volta (try it another time) su e giu per il (up and down the...) cammin...! (...path)
Female Hiker: [''Young Leda reaches over to hug the female hiker hug and kisses her'']
Brava, brava! (good, good) Your Italian is so beautiful!
Young Leda:
Oh.
Female Hiker:
So feminine!
Young Joe:
Leda's the most extraordinary scholar of modern Italian literature.
Young Leda:
Jesus, Joe. I studied translation, yeah. And comparative literature.
Female Hiker:
What are you working on?
Young Leda:
Uh... I'm barely working.
Young Joe: [[w:W. B. Yeats|Yeats translation]
Uh, she's working on a ]
Male Hiker:
Yeats?!
Young Leda:
No.
Male Hiker: [''gestures using Bianca's hands'']
In Italian? That's... that is like chocolate on chocolate!
Young Joe:
Huh?
Bianca: [''Clandestinely'']
Il gelo dell'ala sorta cade lungo il mio corpo
Female Hiker: [''Bianca plays with female hiker's hair'']
Wow. Wow.
Male Hiker:
What is that?
Bianca:
Don't know.
Young Leda:
It's Auden. "Chill of the crooked wing falls down along my body". It's ridiculous. It's just something I taught them.
Female Hiker: [''Extends hand to Young Leda who embraces it''; ''Chuckles'']
È bello. Brava. Wow.
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